Changes in PHP 5.2.3

• Security Fixes
  • Fixed an integer overflow inside chunk_split() (by Gerhard Wagner, CVE-2007-2872)
  • Fixed possible infinite loop in imagecreatefrompng. (by Xavier Roche, CVE-2007-2756)
  • Fixed ext/filter Email Validation Vulnerability (MOPB-45 by Stefan Esser, CVE-2007-1900)
  • Fixed bug #41492 (open_basedir/safe_mode bypass inside realpath()) (by bugs dot php dot net at chsc dot dk)
  • Improved fix for CVE-2007-1887 to work with non-bundled sqlite2 lib.
  • Added mysql_set_charset() to allow runtime altering of connection encoding.
• Changed CGI install target to php-cgi and 'make install' to install CLI when CGI is selected. (Jani)
• Changed JSON maximum nesting depth from 20 to 128. (Rasmus)
• Improved compilation of heredocs and interpolated strings. (Matt, Dmitry)
• Optimized out a couple of per-request syscalls. (Rasmus)
• Optimized digest generation in md5() and sha1() functions. (Ilia)
• Upgraded bundled SQLite 3 to version 3.3.17. (Ilia)
• Addded "max_input_nesting_level" php.ini option to limit nesting level of input variables. Fix for MOPB-03-2007. (Stas)
• Added a 4th parameter flag to htmlspecialchars() and htmlentities() that makes the function not encode existing html entities. (Ilia)
• Added PDO::FETCH_KEY_PAIR mode that will fetch a 2 column result set into an associated array. (Ilia)
• Added CURLOPT_TIMEOUT_MS and CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT_MS cURL constants. (Sara)
• Added --ini switch to CLI that prints out configuration file names. (Marcus)
• Implemented FR Fixed bug #41416 (getColumnMeta() should also return table name). (Tony)
• Fixed filetype() and linkinfo() processing of symlinks on ZTS systems. (Oliver Block, Tony, Dmitry)
• Fixed SOAP extension's handler() to work even when "always_populate_raw_post_data" is off. (Ilia)
• Fixed altering $this via argument named "this". (Dmitry)
• Fixed PHP CLI usage of php.ini from the binary location. (Hannes)
• Fixed segfault in strripos(). (Tony, Joxean Koret)
• Fixed gd build when used with freetype 1.x (Pierre, Tony)
• Fixed bug #41525 (ReflectionParameter::getPosition() not available). (Marcus)
• Fixed bug #41511 (Compile failure under IRIX 6.5.30 building md5.c). (Jani)
• Fixed bug #41504 (json_decode() incorrectly decodes JSON arrays with empty string keys). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #41477 (no arginfo about SoapClient::__soapCall()). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #41455 (ext/dba/config.m4 pollutes global $LIBS and $LDFLAGS). (mmarek at suse dot cz, Tony)
• Fixed bug #41442 (imagegd2() under output control). (Tony)
• Fixed bug #41430 (Fatal error with negative values of maxlen parameter of file_get_contents()). (Tony)
• Fixed bug #41423 (PHP assumes wrongly that certain ciphers are enabled in OpenSSL). (Pierre)
• Fixed bug #41421 (Uncaught exception from a stream wrapper segfaults). (Tony, Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #41403 (json_decode cannot decode floats if localeconv decimal_point is not '.'). (Tony)
• Fixed bug #41401 (wrong unary operator precedence). (Stas)
• Fixed bug #41394 (dbase_create creates file with corrupted header). (Tony)
• Fixed bug #41390 (Clarify error message with invalid protocol scheme). (Scott)
• Fixed bug #41378 (fastcgi protocol lacks support for Reason-Phrase in "Status:" header). (anight at eyelinkmedia dot com, Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #41374 (whole text concats values of wrong nodes). (Rob)
• Fixed bug #41358 (configure cannot determine SSL lib with libcurl >= 7.16.2). (Mike)
• Fixed bug #41353 (crash in openssl_pkcs12_read() on invalid input). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #41351 (Invalid opcode with foreach ($a[] as $b)). (Dmitry, Tony)
• Fixed bug #41347 (checkdnsrr() segfaults on empty hostname). (Scott)
• Fixed bug #41337 (WSDL parsing doesn't ignore non soap bindings). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #41326 (Writing empty tags with Xmlwriter::WriteElement[ns]) (Pierre)
• Fixed bug #41321 (downgrade read errors in getimagesize() to E_NOTICE). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #41304 (compress.zlib temp files left). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #41293 (Fixed creation of HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA when there is no default post handler). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #41291 (FastCGI does not set SO_REUSEADDR). (fmajid at kefta dot com, Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #41287 (Namespace functions don't allow xmlns definition to be optional). (Rob)
• Fixed bug #41283 (Bug with deserializing array key that are doubles or floats in wddx). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #41257 (lookupNamespaceURI does not work as expected). (Rob)
• Fixed bug #41236 (Regression in timeout handling of non-blocking SSL connections during reads and writes). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #41134 (zend_ts_hash_clean not thread-safe). (marco dot cova at gmail dot com, Tony)
• Fixed bug #41097 (ext/soap returning associative array as indexed without using WSDL). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #41004 (minOccurs="0" and null class member variable). (Dmitry)
• Fixed bug #39542 (Behavior of require/include different to <>

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